Some one can tell me whot the best "Allocation unit size" is when formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

i am now using 4096 bytes,. but maybe its not the best way to format a 640gig hardrive,.

(This post was last modified: 04/09/2008 03:10 PM by Vegetano1.)

If you are going to store multimedia stuff that is usually huge in size, make cluster bigger to increase a performance. If small web pages or text documents, make cluster size smaller not to loose a lot of disk space. Think!

if you storing all those umd isos there i say make it 8000bytes whatever

squee666 Wrote:If you are going to store multimedia stuff that is usually huge in size, make cluster bigger to increase a performance. If small web pages or text documents, make cluster size smaller not to loose a lot of disk space. Think!

if you storing all those umd isos there i say make it 8000bytes whatever

i was thinking small files large unit,. ;p,. i guess i am best off with whot i am using now,. because its really a mixxed storage,. i did wander if it its good to partition the disk,. but i don't think that is necessary with hard drives these days,.

o shoot formating takes so long,.  

Large block size » fast, but lot of space wastage
Small block size » slow, but not too much wastage.

Generally, if you've got a lot of large files, use the large block size.  If a lot of small files, use a small block size.


Also, try a quick format.

Vegetano1 Wrote:formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

am I the only one who noticed that?

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

am I the only one who noticed that?

noticed whot,.!?

thanks for all help,. its a mixxed drive so i use midle unit size,..

edit: lol,. well i am doing some stuff @ the same time,. converting video,. ntsc,. ;p

I ment NTFS,. ;)

(This post was last modified: 04/09/2008 04:22 PM by Vegetano1.)

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

am I the only one who noticed that?

what i have a 750gb hd and my dad has 2 also

squee666 Wrote:

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

am I the only one who noticed that?

what i have a 750gb hd and my dad has 2 also

yeah but your are in europe so you probably formatted them pal

SchmilK Wrote:

squee666 Wrote:

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

am I the only one who noticed that?

what i have a 750gb hd and my dad has 2 also

yeah but your are in europe so you probably formatted them pal

double you tee eff its not a tv when did hd format in pal

my hard drives are ntfs as normal

squee666 Wrote:

SchmilK Wrote:

squee666 Wrote:

Senseito Sakura Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:formating a 640gig hard-drive to ntsc,.!?

am I the only one who noticed that?

what i have a 750gb hd and my dad has 2 also

yeah but your are in europe so you probably formatted them pal

double you tee eff its not a tv when did hd format in pal

my hard drives are ntfs as normal

i was playing off of vegetanos comment above